Groza i wyobraźnia. Bóg i Bruno Schulz
Horror and Imagination. The God and Bruno Schulz

Summary/Abstract: In our topic “horror” is brought by God himself, imagination – by Bruno Schulz. The purpose of the study is to sketch the hermeneutic process that arises between the presence of Scripture and the forms of imagination in Schulz’s work. I will present a literary interface of the Sinai epiphany and some visions from Schulz’s topos of the town Dorohobych, along with a theological (biblist) commentary. I consider the presence of hierophany in Schulz’s work to be obvious and essential, contrary to the critics of the relevant hermeneutics presented by Władysław Panas. The chapters of the Hourglass Sanatorium in the suggestive imagery of the “Book”, especially thanks to the metaphors of its “degradation”, build a hermeneutic prophetically consistent with the self-determinations active within the framework of Scripture. We point to an analogy with the theme of Scripture in Mikhail Bulgakov’s Master and Margaret.

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